“Amedeo Modigliani” Civic Art Gallery

Works by artists like Dalì, Bueno and Picasso are in the permanent collection of the museum in Follonica

Follonica

Via Roma, 85, 58022 Follonica GR, Italia

The “Amedeo Modigliani” Civic Art Gallery in Follonica, found in a historical Liberty-style building near the sea, is a large museum dedicated to contemporary art created to house the Municipality’s art collections.

The museum building, in addition to its own property, offers the possibility to visit to the Pepi Collection, one of the vastest in terms of the Macchiaiolo and Verista design, which consists of over 10,000 paintings and 6,000 volumes of art and offers the chance to get to know 19th-century Tuscan painting.

Follonica is located at the center of a beautiful namesake gulf, between the promontory of Piombino and Punta Ala and across from Elba Island. Since antiquity, the town has been famous for iron and cast iron production, so much so that its name originates from the world fulloni, the ancient bellows of the melting furnaces. ...